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Smoke vs smog
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/06/2025
» I did chortle at Mr Cruikshank's complaint that the smoking room door in Chiang Mai being left open exposed passengers to "risks, including cancer".
Service a must to drive THAI forward
Oped, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 14/03/2024
» A passenger on a flight TG652 had to ask crew members twice for a sandwich and Coke after waking up from a short sleep which made him miss the inflight service. When one of the attendants handed him the snack, he asked her again for Coke. The cabin staff looked annoyed and told him that he should have told her from the beginning that he wanted both so that she could have done it in one trip instead of two.
Navy's big gamble
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/09/2023
» Re: "Navy ready to hold annual China drill", (BP, Sept 2).
Picasso's 'Guernica' still relevant today
Oped, David McCarthy, Published on 29/04/2023
» This month marks the anniversary of one of the many atrocities of the last century carried out in the cause of nationalism. On Monday, April 26, 1937, less than a year after dissident Spanish generals launched a coup d'état against a democratically elected coalition government, German and Italian airplanes bombed Gernika, in the Basque Country of Spain.
Forest fantasy
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/08/2022
» Re: "Reforestation rethink required", (BP, July 24).
Wolfman cometh
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/01/2022
» Re: "New narrative needed on getting rich", (Opinion, Jan 17). Paritta Wankiat is obviously being quite provocative with her emphasis that we need to create equal opportunity distribution in Thailand to ensure that the irreverent corrupt forces which become rich can somehow be stymied and Thailand can emerge as a land of free and equal.
Misleading stats?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/09/2021
» Re: "Disease law set for change," (BP, Sept 22).
Rule of exclusion
Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/09/2021
» Re: "Govt to entice rich expats," (BP, Sept 15).
Fixing the US-China tech split
Oped, Hoe Ee Khor & Suan Yong Foo, Published on 12/08/2021
» Heightened US-China tensions have raised the prospect of a deep global technology divide, potentially forcing other countries to choose which camp to join. There are plenty of grim scenarios involving irreconcilable splits between core technologies that power a wide range of products and services, from aircraft and automobiles to precision engineering for robotics and payment systems for e-commerce. Should these scenarios materialise, the world's two largest economies will pour huge amounts of resources into a zero-sum race to control technology's cutting edge.
Truth via debate
Oped, Postbag, Published on 31/07/2021
» Re: "PM orders ban on 'fake news'," (BP, July 30).